Recent content by Rocket354

Just wait till it glazes over. They're worse than solid-leather tips, at twice the price!

Yeah, one of the matches the ref must have spent a solid 5mins trying to get a tight rack for one of the games. I wanted to punch a hole in my TV. Just use a damn template. I think the next step in Predator's saturation marketing strategy is to change every word in the English language to...

Yet, the deciding factor was most definitely not 9-ball.

She is a very interesting person to watch play. She seems to be about the most emotionally detached person when playing, but once she wins gold she is about the most emotionally expressive and vulnerable person. It is definitely a fascinating dichotomy.

The cue spike was fantastic. The shootout was anti-climactic. I still view it like stopping a tied basketball game with 1 min left in regulation to determine the winner by a free-throw shooting contest. And in a world championship? Seo Seoa--the world champion of 9 ball, that she won by making...

You repeat the same error you did before--comparing a handful of players at ages 16-19 to one at 15. You also mostly compare her 15-year-old accomplishments mostly to the handful of 770+ women players at those elder-teen years. There are a lot more than five players in the top-20, and you...

I agree and appreciate that you brought up Sofia Mast, whose game is probably the slightest bit ahead of Savannah's, and who just doesn't have as much social media presence. But I do think you undersell Savannah quite a bit. Two years ago, Savannah was a 13-year-old girl playing like a...

Yes, the overall Fargo rating is a little slow to catch up to rapidly developing players. Both girls have a very high ceiling and are probably at the moment, true 680 (or even a touch higher) players. They are American-born women's best hope for international relevance.

How do you enforce, though? Kick out half the spectators?

Stick a fork in 'em. (Yes, was true after day one, but I hold out hope longer than most.)

Tyler being thrown to the wolf. Team USA punting against Filler and maximizing their chances in the other matchups.

I think you bring up a good point. There's still a negative culture around pool in the US, which I think holds it back, as well. The kids who have parents pushing their interests and skills are pushing kids to learn piano, and/or soccer, etc. It's largely the kids who don't have the parental...

As for 7ft vs 9ft and why Americans suck... For the players currently playing in the MC, sure they all play plenty of time on the big tables. But as for why we have to drop down quite a bit after our top two players (and take a gift from team Europe to have a reasonable top-3), one has to look...

Not sure yet if others have piled on to skor, but while Savannah and Fedor both have very active online presences, I think it's nigh impossible to make an argument with a straight fact that either one doesn't work tremendously at their respective games. Savannah is becoming a real player, and is...

Save yourself the trouble. Or watch for the sheer lunacy of it all.